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nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 01:52 PM Jan 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton reviews Henry Kissinger’s book ‘World Order’

By Hillary Rodham Clinton | Washington Post | September 4, 2014



When Americans look around the world today, we see one crisis after another. Russian aggression in Ukraine, extremism and chaos in Iraq and Syria, a deadly epidemic in West Africa, escalating territorial tensions in the East and South China seas, a global economy that still isn’t producing enough growth or shared prosperity — the liberal international order that the United States has worked for generations to build and defend seems to be under pressure from every quarter. It’s no wonder so many Americans express uncertainty and even fear about our role and our future in the world.

In his new book, “World Order,” Henry Kissinger explains the historic scope of this challenge. His analysis, despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration’s effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.

During the Cold War, America’s bipartisan commitment to protecting and expanding a community of nations devoted to freedom, market economies and cooperation eventually proved successful for us and the world. Kissinger’s summary of that vision sounds pertinent today: “an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance.”

...Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. He checked in with me regularly, sharing astute observations about foreign leaders and sending me written reports on his travels...

Complete Review: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-reviews-henry-kissingers-world-order/2014/09/04/b280c654-31ea-11e4-8f02-03c644b2d7d0_story.html

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Hillary Clinton ‘most effective’ secretary of state: Henry Kissinger



Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had nothing but praise for Hillary Rodham Clinton on her own leadership of the department, even going so far as to say she did a better job than he did.

“I’ve known her for many years now and I respect her intellect,” Mr. Kissinger, 91, told USA Today. “And she ran the State Department in the most effective way that I’ve ever seen.”

Even better than he did?

“Yes,” Mr. Kissinger replied. “I was more chaotic.”

Mr. Kissinger’s kudos comes on the heels of Mrs. Clinton’s own gift of high praise for his newly released book, “World Order.”...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/10/henry-kissinger-touts-hillary-clinton-most-effecti/

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Watch Henry Kissinger (and Biden, Kerry, Clinton, Bush and even Nixon) talk about the "New World Order"



"It's time to actually create a New World Order" - VP Joe Biden, April 5, 2013


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Hillary Rodham Clinton reviews Henry Kissinger’s book ‘World Order’ (Original Post) nationalize the fed Jan 2015 OP
Hillary's playing footsie with Dr. Strangelove Kissinger The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2015 #1
Me neither. I wonder what he would have to say about Bernie Sanders eg? sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #18
...Kissinger is a friend, and I relied on his counsel when I served as secretary of state. benz380 Jan 2015 #2
Yet some here still insist that she's a progressive. Scuba Jan 2015 #3
brace yourself AtomicKitten Jan 2015 #9
Hey, 'comfortable with same sex marriage' negates 'pro-war'. Doesn't it? Scuba Jan 2015 #21
You would think that kissing up to Kelvin Mace Jan 2015 #4
Doesn't matter who gets elected as long as the oligarchs get to pick the candidates ... Scuba Jan 2015 #22
Is she the best we can do? tblue Jan 2015 #5
This is par for the course for Hillary Clinton. cpwm17 Jan 2015 #6
Now that's just creepy for sure TheNutcracker Jan 2015 #7
The NWO is out to get us! NuclearDem Jan 2015 #8
"..embracing liberal economic systems..". She left out the "neo" prefix. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2015 #10
She also left out what a FAILURE these neo-Liberal policies have been. See Europe as the latest sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #19
Technically, it's the same thing but a lot of people who aren't economics majors octoberlib Jan 2015 #31
Having listened to an interview about the book... bhikkhu Jan 2015 #11
Start with one or two million dead Vietnamese hifiguy Jan 2015 #15
But-! But-! The left hates him and Hillary likes him-- so he must be Reasonable©! /nt Marr Jan 2015 #16
LOL! hifiguy Jan 2015 #17
That's a start, but only a start ... Scuba Jan 2015 #23
Ask his millions of victims, starting in Central America. He did love his dictator friends, though sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #20
The good thing is she could never pick him for SOS if she were by chance elected. Autumn Jan 2015 #12
I wish he would get on the wrong plane and be arrested. nt benz380 Jan 2015 #32
New World Order = Globalization = Income Inequality This is what Hillary stands for? jwirr Jan 2015 #13
So she admires the one living man responsible for more bloodshed hifiguy Jan 2015 #14
They're slobbering all over each other. So disgusting! nt benz380 Jan 2015 #27
I can't remember the last time I saw an ostensible Democrat hifiguy Jan 2015 #28
So so hideous Oilwellian Jan 2015 #24
Nor would I. Which doesn't mean I will stay home hifiguy Jan 2015 #25
You know I like Hillary. I'm not about to vote for her. Autumn Jan 2015 #35
Henry has his World Order. Hillary has her Wall Street Orders. nt benz380 Jan 2015 #26
... truebluegreen Jan 2015 #29
Well this seals my no vote for Hillary, not in the primary and not as a hold your nose Cleita Jan 2015 #30
Green for victory!!...nt SidDithers Jan 2015 #33
Grotesque LawDeeDah Jan 2015 #34
She is a Third Way, neocon, neolib, looting, warmongering menace. woo me with science Jan 2015 #36
She's flat out rich girl clueless. Zorra Jan 2015 #37

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,704 posts)
1. Hillary's playing footsie with Dr. Strangelove Kissinger
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 01:56 PM
Jan 2015

does not especially inspire me to support her as a presidential candidate. That old criminal ought to be in jail instead of happily receiving kudos from Hillary. Or anybody.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
18. Me neither. I wonder what he would have to say about Bernie Sanders eg?
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 04:19 PM
Jan 2015

Such praise from a war criminal isn't very inspiring imo.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
21. Hey, 'comfortable with same sex marriage' negates 'pro-war'. Doesn't it?
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 04:47 PM
Jan 2015

They throw us a few crumbs and tell us to shut up if we complain. Both sides use the civil rights issues to divide us and placate us (while keeping the other side angry). Meanwhile, they're both robbing us blind and giving our pensions and tax dollars to the oligarchs who own them.

When the derivatives market next crashes (have you noticed the price of gas lately?) and Wall Street needs another taxpayer bailout, Republicans will be able to go on TV and honestly say "Democrats did this."

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
4. You would think that kissing up to
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 02:03 PM
Jan 2015

and expressing admiration for a genocidal war criminal would make you unelectable, by Democrats at least...

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
6. This is par for the course for Hillary Clinton.
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 02:22 PM
Jan 2015

I'd expect her to suck up and admire the world's worst living monster from the 20th century: Henry Kissinger.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
19. She also left out what a FAILURE these neo-Liberal policies have been. See Europe as the latest
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 04:20 PM
Jan 2015

example.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
31. Technically, it's the same thing but a lot of people who aren't economics majors
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 07:31 PM
Jan 2015

won't know this.

Economic liberalism is the economic component of classical liberalism.[1] It is an economic philosophy that supports and promotes laissez-faire economics and private property in the means of production. Proponents of economic liberalism believe political freedom and social freedom are inseparable with economic freedom, and use philosophical arguments promoting liberty to justify economic liberalism and the free market. Although economic liberalism can be supportive of government regulation to a certain degree, it tends to oppose government intervention in the free market that inhibits free trade and competition. Economic liberalism contrasts with mercantilism, the social market model, economic planning, socialism,[2] and fascist third-way economics.[3] https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Economic_liberalism.html

bhikkhu

(10,716 posts)
11. Having listened to an interview about the book...
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 03:34 PM
Jan 2015

I'd need a refresher on exactly how evil Kissinger is supposed to be. His ideas sound reasonable at the moment.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
15. Start with one or two million dead Vietnamese
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 03:51 PM
Jan 2015

killed between 1969 and 1973, and about 20,000 American GIs. The same basic deal was on the table in '69 that was signed in '73, but Nixon and Kissinger had to show how tough they were and dragged the process out so it could be concluded in the nick of time for the 1972 elections.

Kissinger was the man behind the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende, the duly elected President of Chile, and was responsible for the installation of General Pinochet and his subsequent reign of terror, torture, murder and disappearances. And the imposition of the economic shock doctrine that followed Allende's assassination.

Kissinger is one of the most evil SOBs of the late 20th century. On a par with the likes of Pol Pot, though not in the same class, it must be admitted, as Mao, Stalin and Hitler from the preceding era. He is a monster in human form.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
23. That's a start, but only a start ...
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 05:00 PM
Jan 2015
http://www.amazon.com/Trial-Henry-Kissinger-Christopher-Hitchens/dp/145552297X

Forget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi: America need look no further than its own lauded leaders for a war criminal whose offenses rival those of the most heinous dictators in recent history-Henry Kissinger.

Employing evidence based on firsthand testimony, unpublished documents, and new information uncovered by the Freedom of Information Act, and using only what would hold up in international courts of law, THE TRIAL OF HENRY KISSINGER outlines atrocities authorized by the former secretary of state in Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus, East Timor, and in the plight of the Iraqi Kurds, "including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture."

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
20. Ask his millions of victims, starting in Central America. He did love his dictator friends, though
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 04:21 PM
Jan 2015

several of THEM are being brought to justice, finally.

Autumn

(45,089 posts)
12. The good thing is she could never pick him for SOS if she were by chance elected.
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 03:37 PM
Jan 2015

He could get arrested if he got on the wrong plane.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
14. So she admires the one living man responsible for more bloodshed
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 03:46 PM
Jan 2015

than anyone else remaining from the 20th century. A man who, to this day, cannot set foot in a number of countries throughout the world without running the risk of being arrested as a war criminal.

And her other BFFs are Goldman Sachs' top execs.

And this woman has the colossal gall to call herself a Democrat?

NO MORE THIRD WAY BULLSHIT and this means YOU, Hillary.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
28. I can't remember the last time I saw an ostensible Democrat
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 07:22 PM
Jan 2015

do something so nauseating and barf-worthy. ugh.

Oilwellian

(12,647 posts)
24. So so hideous
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 07:08 PM
Jan 2015

And a few people around here wonder how I could possibly say I would NEVER vote for this woman.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
25. Nor would I. Which doesn't mean I will stay home
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 07:14 PM
Jan 2015

as I have good, real Democrats like Keith Ellison to vote for. But HRC? No effin' way. No, nae, never. EVER.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
30. Well this seals my no vote for Hillary, not in the primary and not as a hold your nose
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 07:30 PM
Jan 2015

vote in the general election either. God deliver us from evil people and those who would hold hands with them.

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)
36. She is a Third Way, neocon, neolib, looting, warmongering menace.
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 09:52 PM
Jan 2015

Nothing is more important than making sure she or another Third Way corporatist in a Democrat suit is not shoved down our throats by corporate Democrats as the 2016 Democratic nominee. If corporatists can do that, they will have ensured continuation of their predatory, antidemocratic, anti-99 percent agenda no matter who is elected.



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